Issue #10 - Revenge of the Marketing Drones!

[boostedfailure]

[Christmas came and went, and Booster recovered from that terrible cold that the raid on the Milkman's factory generated after all the singing. So much singing. So much Skeets telling him "I told you so." When the cards came on Christmas Mike threw them in a corner, finally opening them today

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[imjustpicky]

[The Highway]

...woah.

[So that's a kid standing not too far away. Sure, it's a little farther out than he'd normally go, but he's a kid and there's no school and it's fun to explore.

He's... pretty sure that that guy shouldn't be on that billboard.]

Hey. What're you doing up there?

[boostedfailure]

Selling a cereal which I couldn't eat one bite of without getting violently ill. Of all things this town sends me, it sent one of the terrible ad campaigns I was in.

[imjustpicky]

The town sent that to you?!

[He looks between the man and the billboard, then just stops and shakes his head.]

That... that sucks. What're you going to do with a billboard?

...

And the cereal made you sick? Really?

[boostedfailure]

Yep.

On both accounts. At least it didn't send the cereal. It was just too sickeningly sweet, told that 12 year olds love it but it just caused my stomach to turn in all sorts of horrible ways.

And you know, back home I had to make a living somehow, and its not like super heroes can rob banks or anything. So without some billionaire playboy or alien cash fund to support myself, I had to do some advertising.

[flameyedhunter]

[ At the Highway, Shana is staring up with interest at the Sweeties Billboard. ]

I wonder if they're good....

[boostedfailure]

[Skeets floats over her shoulder]

Booster said once that they are made of sugar and suffering. I do not believe he would suggest that you eat them.

[flameyedhunter]

Mou! There really isn't any good food here.

.... Oh, who are you?

[boostedfailure]

I am Skeets, Booster's trusty sidekick. He's currently a bit too embarrassed by this to be social.

[answerer_sword]

[Bazett is testing the limits of her regained magic circuits. It is a little irritating that they refused to return her runes, but at least she can cast reinforcement on herself now.]

[Her enhanced eyes easily catch sight of the strange sign from a ways off. She decides to get closer and investigate. After all, what better way to test her new speed than to see how quickly she can get from her house to the highway?]

[After she gets to the sign at speeds that no normal human can hope to match, she stops and gawks. It is apparently an ad for a strangely named cereal endorsed by a strangely dressed man. She wonders if this is a bit of foreshadowing for Mayfield's next trick, but dismisses the idea when she notices the man from the sign standing on the street.]

Was this your regain?

[Did a sign count as a personal item?]

[boostedfailure]

Yup, looks like it was. At least they didn't pick one of the really stupid ones.

[answerer_sword]

That is a personal item?

[The man has some strange tastes in mementos.]

[boostedfailure]

Personal item? No. Not in the least bit. Something I was involved with to pay the bills, yeah, that's more accurate. I'd have rather gotten a personal item back over well... That embarrassment.

[webball]

[Peter is walking by, about a yard away, wandering aimlessly and checking out the city limits again. He squints at a billboard that he doesn't recognize. He's behind the billboard, so he can't see what it is yet, but he's about to take a closer look.]

[boostedfailure]

[Booster is still looking at it, talking with some floating drone of some sort by his shoulders, he sort of half waves to Peter but the thing seems to have him so horrified he can't look away.]

Sir, I do not think that it is as bad as you think it is. You could have regained the injuries to your arm.

Look, I don't even like to THINK of when that guy ripped my arm off and tried to beat me to death with it.

Technically he did beat you to death with it. Just that life support suit they hastily made was very effective.

Once again Skeets, you are NOT helping!

[webball]

...Guy kinda sounds like he's talking to himself, there. Yelling at himself, actually, which probably isn't healthy. Wait, I do that. So, yeah, it's DEFINITELY not healthy.

...I'm doing it right now. Stop it. Stop!

[He walks over further, keeping a reasonable distance from the possible psycho, but close enough to see the billboard.]

[boostedfailure]

[The drone then moves towards Peter at a fairly speedy but mostly harmless clip]

Actually, you really don't want to hear Booster when he talks to himself. It embarrasses even me just by being close to it.

[hellsing_knight]

One of your endorsements?

[Integra has put the parking brake on the car and rests her elbow on the opened window, her eye on the billboard. She'd slowed down after seeing Booster on the side of the road.]

[boostedfailure]

Something like that. Man's gotta eat, just... Never EVER eat that. If it ever shows up, just let it sit there collecting dust.

[hellsing_knight]

Then why endorse it in the first place?

[boostedfailure]

It involved a dump truck full of money and the ability to do things like get a nice apartment and actually pay for suit repairs?